A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel